The Seasteading Institute was founded ten years ago to enable seasteading communities which will allow the next generation of pioneers to peacefully test new ideas for government. The most successful can then inspire change in governments around the world.

All social problems flow downstream from governance. Seasteading is an attempt to strike at the root of those problems. When startup societies proliferate, we innovate the rules in ways that even we can’t predict.Thanks to our donors, in the past 10 years we have:

If you want a utopia, go build it. We’re bringing the smartest and most innovative people together to build multiple utopias. Our momentum is collecting people from around the world. We need help managing them and organizing projects to put them to work. We are a small, but mighty, team supported entirely by individuals who believe in us.Show your support for the global Seasteading movement by donating to The Seasteading Institute for Giving Tuesday 2018. Your donation will double because a generous donor has agreed to match donations up to $20,000 if you donate between now and Dec 31.

One of the things I’ve been writing up lately is a pitch to libertarians about why they should see seasteading as the most promising road to a libertarian society. Part of this is an analysis of proposed alternatives, such as the Free State Project.

As the project has been getting more active lately, Wayne & I are going to start meeting more on Wednesday’s. We had an interesting design discussion about some of his thoughts on spar construction, Personal Seasteads, and detachable spars. Highlights: